From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:33:58 +0000 Subject: Re: Cameras, Scanners and other USB device-less object-d'arse Message-Id: <20050927123358.GA9712@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <1127822343.4358.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1127822343.4358.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 12:59:03PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > We here at Ubuntu Towers have turfed up an interesting problem in the > last couple of days, there's still a large bunch of consumer USB devices > such as scanners and "libgphoto2" cameras that don't work with the > uevent system. >=20 > Instead if seems that to communicate these devices you need to use > libusb, which uses a file under /proc/bus/usb/devices/NNN/NNN -- rather > than any sensible node under /dev. >=20 > The lack of any node under /dev also seems to mean that there isn't any > sysfs support for these devices. >=20 > What's the long-term plan for things like this? don't use usbdevfs: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a= =3Dcommit;h=FBf82fd2e1f4e679c60516d772d1862c941ca845 libusb needs a patch, which is on this list. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel